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Finland’s Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success Story
By Laurence Boone, Boris Cournède, OECD Economics Department; and Marissa Plouin, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Following a period when homele…
Learning from Finland’s success in combatting homelessness....
Learning from Finland’s success in combatting homelessness. “It is the result of a sustained, well-resourced national strategy […] which provides people experiencing homelessness with immediate, independent, permanent housing…̶
Opening the DNC’s Black Box
Why we’re publishing a previously undisclosed list of all 448 members of the Democratic National Committee
Have the past 10 years of Democratic politics been a disaster?
A conversation with Matthew Yglesias.
Why does Trump hate this tiny fish so much?
As Los Angeles burns, President-elect Donald Trump is yelling at a fish.
The L.A. Fires Have Clarified The True Villain Of A 2024 Disaster Movie - SlashFilm
The real-life Los Angeles fires illustrate that the truly despicable villains in 2024's disaster blockbuster Twisters aren't the tornadoes.
Eastern Europe's Thriving Talent Market | Newgeography.com
The Future Is The One We Generate
If you want to be at the top of the food chain on Earth, as human beings have ascended to after millions of years of evolution, there are a bunch of
Pluralistic: The Brave Little Toaster (08 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
4.12: The Transparent Society
The cameras are coming. They're getting smaller and nothing will stop them. The only question is: who watches whom?
Hey, remember when the panopticon was going to be good actually?
It is perhaps not sporting to be poking fun at moldering techno-optimism from 1996, from WiReD no less, but I'm going to do it anyway, because I suspect that Brin's article curdled as many brains as Barlow's asinine "declaration" did. The Internet was a mistake. The Transparent Society: The inhabitants of City Number Two know better. They realize that - out of doors at least - privacy has ...
Bald eagle dies of bird flu
Once again, this season's writers are a bit on the nose. She said they stopped and sat on Madison Street, north of Ogden Avenue, with the eagle for about a half hour after putting out the call for help. The raptor twice found enough energy to briefly fly, the second time into a wooded area where it was later found and captured by handlers from Midwest Bird Collision Monitors. "It definitely ...
John Battelle's Search Blog When Tech Gets Too Big To Fail
I opened my annual predictions last week by noting that the technology industry had leapfrogged finance as the most powerful political force in the business world. But the news today that Meta is a…
Deep politics - Wikispooks
The Gaza Bombshell | Vanity Fair
archived 11 Dec 2024 16:12:02 UTC
The Militia and the Mole
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine
A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away.
Pluralistic: Winning coalitions aren’t always governing coalitions (06 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.
What if everyone qualified for welfare benefits?
Universal programs are much easier to administer than means-tested ones.
The Hidden History of Pneumatic Tubes | The Saturday Evening Post
Extensive networks of pneumatic tubes allowed stories to whoosh around newsrooms, saving time, improving communication, and reducing stress, all while making really cool sounds.
Dark triad - Wikipedia
The dark triad is a psychological theory of personality, first published by Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams in 2002, that describes three notably offensive, but non-pathological personality types: Machiavellianism, sub-clinical narcissism, and sub-clinical psychopathy. Each of these personality types is called dark because each is considered to contain malevolent qualities.
Useful Stats: A look at the H-1B visa program by industry, employer and state | SSTI
Employment by major industry sector
Employed persons by detailed industry and age
What Should Tesla’s Stock Be Worth? Automaker, Stagnating Vehicle Sales like GM & Ford, Getting Overtaken by Competitors, Losing Share in the Booming EV Market? | naked capitalism
Tesla is now just a mid-size automaker amid EV competition that is eating its lunch. What might realistic valuations mean for Musk's clout?
Which companies have the most employees working on an H-1B visa?
Tesla founder Elon Musk is a vocal proponent of H-1B visas, and his company's use of the program jumped sharply this year.
How We Got Here
Do Not Obey in Advance
Happy New Year! Let's all take a deep breath, because 2025 going to be a weird one.
"Do not obey in advance," historian Timothy Snyder cautions. "Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want,